Relates a follow-up study of newlywed couples nine months after marriage to determine the couple's appraisal of the most frequent causes of discord and unhappiness. (MH)

This paper considers what the author believes to be weaknesses in Donald Cushman's and Gordon Whiting's analysis of rules, which represent an important movement from monadic to dyadic concepts in explaining patterns of communication behavior. (Author/RK)

Examines various measures such as intensity, frequency and reciprocity of hits used in a game fight between spouses and attempts to relate such actions to the amount of discord reported in the represented marriages. (MH)

Discusses several studies of whether and how well humans can detect lies. Examines the accuracy of such persons as well as the process of how they actually detect lies, how they think they detect lies, and whether the actual and perceived processes of lie detection correspond to one another. (JMF)

Investigates certain subtle extraverbal cues and whether these relate to accord or discord between newlywed couples. (MH)

Presents a study demonstrating that aid-giving by children is predicated by nonverbal displays of submission emitted by the child under attack, and that although the children observing the episodes respond to the displays, the aggressor ignores them. (JMF)

Deals with a study conducted in Costa Rica, Panama, and Columbia to determine whether Latin Americans have similar distance and contact orientations regardless of sex and nationality. Concludes that the differences in behavior between the Central and South Americans are significant enough to warrant further research. (MH)

Probes the nature and extent of public conversations as indicators of community cohesiveness. (MH)